VIRGINA BEACH, Va. – The Pittsburg State University men's track and field program claimed its fourth straight indoor national championship in dominant fashion at the 2026 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field National Championships, while the MIAA men combined for 26 All-America performances over the two-day event at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Va.
 
Seventeen MIAA track and field programs (nine women’s, eight men’s) combined for 100 individual event entries and seven relay team entries for the 2026 NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championships, hosted March 13-14 in Virginia Beach. Of the league’s total 53 individual entries and four qualifying relay teams in the men’s championship, the MIAA men earned 22 individual All-America performances and four All-America relay teams. There were also three MIAA men crowned individual national champions and one national champion relay team.  
 
Pitt State compiled 75.5 points to claim the program's fifth overall NCAA Indoor National Championship (2018, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026). With the title, the Gorillas have won the last eight NCAA Division II track and field national championships. Grand Valley State University finished as the national runner-up with 51.5 points and Wingate University placed third with 50 points.
 
The Gorillas earned 12 All-America honors and had two All-American relay teams. On Championship Saturday, Pitt State secured two individual event national titles to help fuel the point-scoring frenzy, with Ilias Garcia winning the men’s 60 meters (6.58) and Dylan Sprecker taking first place in the men’s mile run (4:11.92). Pitt State also got a national runner-up effort early in the day from Tyrone Jackson in the 60-meter hurdles (7.79), and the Gorillas’ 4x400 meter relay of Amar Williams, Logan Davis, Caden Williams and Nate Watson closed out the Championships with a national runner-up showing (3:07.28). The Gorillas’ distance medley relay team was the MIAA’s only national champion relay team. The team of Jordan Kilonzo, Amar Williams, Eli Gilmore, Dylan Sprecker won the indoor distance medley title in 9:39.95.   
 
Northwest Missouri totaled 22 points to place eighth at the 2026 indoor national championship. The Bearcats had four individual All-America performances and four All-American relay teams, highlighted by Dominic Sedlacek’s runner-up finish in the men’s 60 meters with a time of 6.62.
 
Washburn’s triple jumper Justin Forde led Washburn to a tie for 21st with 10 points. Forde was crowned the individual national champion of the men’s triple jump competition with a winning mark of 16.29 meters.
 
Missouri Southern’s thrower led the Lions to finish 24th in the men’s indoor team standings with nine points. Cedric Pearson and Jamale Williams both earned All-American honors in the men’s weight throw, with Pearson named the national runner-up with a throw of 18.68 meters and Williams placing eighth with a mark of 17.93 meters.
 
The Pitt State women also captured the 2026 NCAA Division II Indoor National Championship, marking the second straight year the Gorillas swept both women's and men's indoor track and field national titles. The last school to accomplish that feat was St. Augustine's College in 2007.
 
Below is a list of the MIAA’s All-America performances from the 2026 NCAA Division II Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field National Championship. MIAA men and women combined for 49 individual All-America honors, seven All-American relay teams, five individual national champions, one national champion relay team, and two indoor team titles.
 
To view the final results and find more information on the 2026 NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championships in Virginia Beach, Va., visit NCAA.com.
 

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MEN’S HEPTATHLON
4th Place (5452) – Leo Chauchard, Pittsburg State
5th Place (5351) – Drew Wilhite, Pittsburg State
 
WOMEN’S PENTATHLON
4th Place (3889) – Payton Phillips, Pittsburg State
5th Place (3864) – Naiuri Rigo-Krein, Washburn
7th Place (3836) – Lily Brown, Pittsburg State
8th Place (3732) – Anjelena Carder, Northwest Missouri
 
MEN’S HIGH JUMP
5th Place (2.11m) – Xavier Byers, Pittsburg State
7th Place (2.11m) – Luke Brachle, Nebraska Kearney
 
WOMEN’S HIGH JUMP
1st Place (1.80m) – Jazmine Williamson, Pittsburg State
7th Place (1.73m) – Bethany Umbarger, Pittsburg State
 
WOMEN’S LONG JUMP
3rd Place (6.16m) – Blakelee Winn, Pittsburg State
4th Place (6.12m) – Jazmine Williamson, Pittsburg State
 
MEN’S POLE VAULT
6th Place (5.16m) – Grayson Smith, Pittsburg State
8th Place (5.16m) – Braylon Brown, Pittsburg State
 
WOMEN’S POLE VAULT
1st Place (4.42m) – Isabelle Peters, Pittsburg State
2nd Place (4.37m) – Breanne Peters, Pittsburg State
T-4th Place (4.27m) – Cannon Booker, Pittsburg State
 
MEN’S SHOT PUT
2nd Place (18.68m) – Cedric Pearson, Missouri Southern
8th Place (17.93m) – Jamale Williams, Missouri Southern
 
WOMEN’S SHOT PUT
3rd Place (16.20m) – Dailynn VanDeren, Missouri Southern
6th Place (15.58m) – Makenzie Garr, Missouri Western
 
MEN’S TRIPLE JUMP
1st Place (16.29m) – Justin Forde, Washburn
8th Place (15.18m) – Johnetheon Lockett, Pittsburg State
 
WOMEN’S TRIPLE JUMP
8th Place (12.27m) – Jazmine Williamson, Pittsburg State
 
MEN’S WEIGHT THROW
8th Place (20.28m) – Landon Mason, Central Missouri
 
WOMEN’S WEIGHT THROW
3rd Place (20.63m) – Dailynn VanDeren, Missouri Southern
4th Place (19.99m) – Lily Novacek, Nebraska Kearney
7th Place (19.19m) – Briar Gillum, Missouri Southern
8th Place (19.06m) – Kirsten Womack, Missouri Southern
 
MEN’S 60 METER HURDLES
2nd Place (7.79) – Tyrone Jackson, Pittsburg State
5th Place (7.84) – Nolan Vancauwemberghe, Central Missouri
6th Place (7.89) – Frank Sparks, Northwest Missouri
7th Place (7.93) – Na’Koriyon James, Pittsburg State

WOMEN’S 60 METER HURDLES
4th Place (8.39) – Kayvon Nubine, Pittsburg State
 
MEN’S 60 METERS
1st Place (6.58) – Ilias Garcia, Pittsburg State
2nd Place (6.62) – Dominic Sedlacek, Northwest Missouri
 
WOMEN’S 60 METERS
2nd Place (7.33) – Grizell Scarlett, Central Missouri
 
MEN’S 200 METERS
6th Place (21.11) – Braylon Thompson, Pittsburg State
 
WOMEN’S 200 METERS
2nd Place (23.58) – Grizell Scarlett, Central Missouri
 
WOMEN’S 800 METERS
6th Place (2:08.45) – Lexie Fontaine, Washburn
 
MEN’S 400 METERS
3rd Place (46.21) – Caden Williams, Pittsburg State
8th Place (48.71) – Truman Hare, Northwest Missouri
 
WOMEN’S 400 METERS
2nd Place (53.36) – Melanie Roland, Northwest Missouri
3rd Place (53.98) – Kennedi Cline, Northwest Missouri
 
MEN’S MILE
1st Place (4:11.92) – Dylan Sprecker, Pittsburg State
7th Place (4:12.99) – Riley Witt, Northwest Missouri
 
WOMEN’S MILE
6th Place (4:47.99) – Kassidy Stuckey, Nebraska Kearney
 
WOMEN’S 3,000 METERS
7th Place (9:22.70) – Paige Mullen, Pittsburg State
 
WOMEN’S 5,000 METERS
5th Place (16:21.48) – Paige Mullen, Pittsburg State
 
MEN’S 4x400
2nd Place (3:07.28) – Pittsburg State
Amar Williams, Logan Davis, Caden Williams, Nate Watson
6th Place (3:10.87) – Northwest Missouri
Danny Jantzen, Logan Arellano, Josh Fraker, Christian Lanphier
 
WOMEN’S 4X400
3rd Place (3:39.35) – Northwest Missouri
Melanie Roland, Kennedi Cline, Jadyn Barnes, Marie Dea
4th Place (3:40.81) – Pittsburg State
Nikole Cozort, Isabel Abdouch, Kinleigh Hall, Mikah Edwards
 
MEN’S DISTANCE MEDLEY
1st Place (9:39.95) – Pittsburg State
Jordan Kilonzo, Amar Williams, Eli Gilmore, Dylan Sprecker
4th Place (9:41.29) – Northwest Missouri
Aziz Mohammed, Josh Fraker, Charlie Kinslow, Barnabe Gabillet
 
WOMEN’S DISTANCE MEDLEY
8th Place (11:39.84) – Northwest Missouri
Lydia McGlocklin, Jadyn Barnes, Kendall Tietjen, Kiki Witt